NASA’s audio storytelling reached new frontiers in 2024, with Spotify Wrapped revealing the company’s podcasts as a favourite amongst listeners worldwide. In celebration of the milestone, NASA astronaut Nick Hague spoke with Spotify about what house seemed like this 12 months.

“Music is a kind of issues that connects us to the planet,” mentioned Hague, within the video launched on Spotify and NASA social accounts. “Music is an important a part of life up right here. The soundtrack up right here, it’s simply going on a regular basis. All people’s acquired their very own taste of music. Each Friday night time the crew will get collectively, we activate music and we stream issues that we like. Whether or not they’re into pop or onerous rock, it’s a world combine. After I consider house walks, I consider classical music, sluggish, methodical tunes, as a result of that’s the manner that we conduct spacewalks. Slowly and methodically. Classical music captures the essence of, simply floating in house.”

With listeners in additional than 100 international locations, NASA podcasts reached new audiences and impressed individuals around the globe on Spotify this 12 months. Different 2024 highlights included:

• Ranked as a best choice for hundreds of listeners searching for to find out about science and house.
• Spent a mixed 37 weeks in Spotify’s prime charts for science podcasts.
• The highest streamed podcast was “NASA’s Curious Universe”, and the highest streamed episode was “A 12 months in Mars Dune Alpha.”

“We’re thrilled to have our space-centric content material featured in Spotify Wrapped 2024,” mentioned Brittany Brown, director of digital communications, NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Our collaboration with Spotify is a testomony to NASA’s dedication to producing revolutionary and interesting content material. We’re excited to see how audiences proceed to reply to this distinctive listening expertise solely NASA can present.”

The company’s podcasts cowl a variety of matters, together with in-depth conversations with NASA astronauts, tales that take audiences on a tour of the galaxy, and Spanish-language content material.

“Music, identical to house, connects us all,” mentioned Katie Konans, audio program lead, eMITS contract with NASA. “Our partnership with Spotify has allowed NASA to share the marvel and pleasure of house with music and podcast lovers globally. This 12 months, we’re thrilled to take this connection to new heights by bringing the Spotify Wrapped 2024 dialog past planet Earth.”

NASA launched its assortment of authentic podcasts on Spotify in 2023, furthering the company’s mission to interact the Artemis Era within the science, house exploration, and discovery.

Along with Spotify, customers might discover NASA podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Soundcloud.

Uncover all of NASA’s podcasts at:

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Abbey Donaldson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
abbey.a.donaldson@nasa.gov